Prologue:
A Royal Buggering
Inspired by the new Bioware MMO set in the Star Wars universe. I own none of the characters, obviously.
Separatist corpses littered the village. Though they were competent individual fighters, they didn't work well together and they expected folks to come at them straight on. Sulmad was not a fan of straight on (though he was of straight sex). Striking from hiding, then ambushing the team that tried to rescue their already deceased comrades, he'd left a trail of bodies in his wake. The surviving Separatists had been sent to the perimeter, sure that this was some sort of distraction from the main Republic attack, giving the smuggler free rein within the village.
Finding the hut was simple enough, as was figuring out how the necklace had been lost. The poor maid who'd been carrying it was dead, her body stripped and visibly abused. Alma hadn't mentioned a servant, but the twisted brand on her shoulder, shaped exactly like the necklace he'd been sent to find and obviously far older than the wounds that lined her corpse, made it difficult to come to any other conclusion. Though, he mused as he searched the hut for his prize, she might have been someone Alma sent before hiring him.
The necklace was in sight when something triggered his paranoia. He couldn't have said what it was, but, blaster in hand, he was facing the door before he even realized he'd drawn the damn thing. An alien stepped out of the shadows, hands high and away from its body. "Peace, peace, we're on the same side." It burbled, though only Sulmad's translator let him identify those sounds as having that meaning.
"Really? Cause since I got to this rock, I ain't had a side, just folks who're shooting at me and folks who ain't. Yet." Sulmad said, accent thick, playing the stupid pirate for all he was worth. People said things in front of the stupid and they bribed the criminal. Coin, in credits, or information was a high priority at the moment, with an alien of unknown loyalty and ability between him and the only exit.
The alien explained, slowly, that he was worked for the SIS (Republic Intelligence) and that Alma was an Imperial agent. The necklace she valued so highly was actually a specially constructed communications tool that let her talk to her Imperial handlers, so the alien wanted it.
Sulmad's annoyance at being fooled was carefully hidden behind a mask of patriotism and concern. "So she's not really a noble?" He asked, as if he was disappointed at losing out on a chance to serve his betters.
"She is." The alien admitted. "Recruited by Imperial Intelligence. Apparently her strong pro-Human views made her an excellent candidate."
"Anti-alien, you mean. I noticed them myself in passing." Sulmad corrected.
The alien shrugged, not bothering to point out that they weren't anti-alien to him.
"Wouldn't it be smarter to bug the thing? Then you could wrap up the whole network." Sulmad offered, his libido rather enjoying the notion of giving both a noble and a traitor the right buggering they so richly deserved.
"We don't have the equipment hereβbut there is a Separatist communication's node in the center of the village, they'd have the stuff we need." The alien suddenly said.
"I'll get it. I know what to look for." Sulmad said, holstering his blaster at last.
"Good."
"Oh. Two things. I expect to be well paid for this."
"Of course." The alien agreed.
"And if you stab me in the back, I'll shoot you in the face."
"Fair enough."
The trip to and from the communication's center was even more unpleasant. Though most of the guards were still on the perimeter their only link to the outside world was heavily defended. A borrowed uniform and a nasty attitude got him inside, where he stole the equipment, constructed a make-shift bomb and fled before its uncertain timer went off, lighting up the night sky.
With the Separatists busy, Sulmad and the alien had plenty of time to bug the necklace and seal it back up. After making a down payment, the alien vanished as quietly as he'd come, leaving Sulmad to curse the fact that the first Republic spy he'd met (as far as he knew) wasn't a smoking hot woman out to fuck secrets out of him using super secret spy sex techniques. On the other hand, Alma's ass awaited him back at the refugee camp.
A few precautions, a little blaster fire and much sneaking later, Sulmad arrived back at the camp. After taking a nap (and collecting his pay for blowing up the communication's center from the Republic) and a few precautions he headed down to the refugee camp to pay the pretty traitor a visit.
Alma followed him into her hut this time and closed the door carefully behind her, leaving the local who was trying to chat her up to her own devices. The brunette had shot Sulmad a dirty look that he returned. Though his version of dirty and hers were quite different.
"You have what you were sent for?" She asked, pretending that she hadn't forced herself to cum on her own fingers in front of them during the last business meeting and this one wasn't going to end with her ass being filled with his cock.
"Of course."
"And it is?" She prodded gently, a courtesy he didn't intend to extend to her.
"Elsewhere." The holocamera he held up revealed the necklace in a nondescript box that could have been anywhere.